goodkarma

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by goodkarma 17y ago
holy cow, I served with CDR Lahti on another ship 10 years ago!
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by goodkarma 17y ago
I've been wanting a SSD for weeks now. I think hard drive speed is why Windows XP is running so slow for me (via VMWare on my Mac). Downside is I've got a 320 Gb hard drive so need something somewhat comparable. Bigger SSDs are still not c
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by goodkarma 17y ago
I don't have a reference readily available, but I believe I heard/read recently that their revenues are in the $xx million/year (maybe $15M?).
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by goodkarma 17y ago
Google was such a massive success that any search startup with a chance of being a "Google killer", or even just a worthy competitor, seems to be finding investors. If 1% share is a billion dollars in annual revenue, there's some real oppor
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by goodkarma 17y ago
Glad to hear that the rumors in this article might be unfounded. I was hoping to get one of these in time for the holidays, guess I'll have to wait till next year..
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by goodkarma 17y ago
I visited the site because I saw their commercial on TV. I imagine most folks will hear about it through their marketing campaigns. They have plenty of smart folks over there - is it possible they did this intentionally? If their goal is t
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by goodkarma 17y ago
Okay they fixed the problem. I'd delete my comment if I could but I can't. No need to take away any more of my karma! Thanks.
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by goodkarma 17y ago
All I'm seeing is: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: query() in /content/public_web_sites/www.inc.com/reflex/lib/dbi.class.php on line 152
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by goodkarma 17y ago
Their website is functional and actually has quite a bit of content on it - including many years worth of letters from Buffett to Berkshire shareholders. I'm sure the site would be fancier if Warren Buffett actually used a computer - but as
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by goodkarma 17y ago
Your points are all true but printed snail mail is still more mainstream then PGP encrypted e-mail. Despite its age and the fact that it is grossly inadequate, snail mail still has a place in our society - at least for now.
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by goodkarma 17y ago
I love the idea of a printed letter API (like what postful.com has) as a solution to send automated letters to people. First one that comes to mind is to send a letter to someone if they do a chargeback or their credit card was declined. I
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by goodkarma 17y ago
I remember seeing the Google piece and thinking it was a good idea then. I can see the progression now: 1) local farmer rents out some goats as an experiment 2) seeing positive feedback, local farmer sets up a business breeding goats and re
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by goodkarma 17y ago
I LOVE HEROKU. In the process of migrating a large app to the cloud via Heroku. (We have other apps already running there.) The guys there are awesome and very helpful, and the service is mind-blowingly bad-ass! Amazing how Rails deploymen
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by goodkarma 17y ago
You can definitely host tiny apps for free. If they are fairly low traffic sites with small databases (< 5 MB) that don't require SSL or more than a daily cron, they should fit within the parameters of a free plan - i.e. "blossom" datab
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by goodkarma 17y ago
WOW. Google is fundamentally changing the business model of many companies. This is a great example. To Google this is all data, and their goal is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." So the
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by goodkarma 17y ago
Just to follow up - the stream has gotten a LOT better - watching Chris Anderson now. Awesome!
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by goodkarma 17y ago
I think the special interests donate to folks they know they can influence. (Everything in government is about getting the votes they need, right?) Which may be why Obama got a lot of donations from individual taxpayers and not multi billio
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by goodkarma 17y ago
So funny how Republicans use the word "freedom" (as in "Internet Freedom Act") when they're actually taking freedoms away (like Net Neutrality)
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by goodkarma 17y ago
I've been trying to watch and the video has been pretty choppy too. Not trying to hate or anything, but I'm pretty bummed about this. I was really looking forward to watching it.
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by goodkarma 17y ago
>> But before I let you get too excited about this, a warning: Morgenstern doesn't tell us what Gödel's loophole was! Wow, that headline was quite a tease!
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by goodkarma 17y ago
Is it really that ridiculous? I'm not a lawyer, but I can see both sides to this. The whole purpose of a trademark is to protect your brand from anything that could be construed as "confusingly similar". Spark and Sparc sound the same and
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by goodkarma 17y ago
>> oh, my bad. its rails, it fails to scales! UGH
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by goodkarma 17y ago
There are a bunch of sites that offer some kind of functionality like this. Some well known apps (like Tweetie 2) let you do it as well.
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by goodkarma 17y ago
Documentaries such as "Recount" and "Hacking Democracy" have made me sick to my stomach - and for a while now I've been questioning the fundamentals of the 'Democracy' that we have been shoving down other countries' throats all these years.
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by goodkarma 17y ago
Perhaps but I think it's a great start.
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by goodkarma 17y ago
There's lots of different software involved here. They said "the election management components are built with Ruby on Rails". I don't want to get into an argument about the security of the Rails framework specifically - as an active develo
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by goodkarma 17y ago
I read this article, and then I read Sergey's Op-Ed in the New York Times. I agree with Sergey more than this guy.
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by goodkarma 17y ago
That makes sense in theory, but our company has dozens of WordPress sites. Once you have more than a few, managing software and plugin versions becomes exponentially more challenging. I'm in the process of upgrading all of them to 2.8.4 an
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by goodkarma 17y ago
>> To do this, the sub releases a similar buoy through its garbage chute. This is technically incorrect. The garbage shoot is for weighted trash that gets flushed vertically downward. If the sub were going to launch a buoy it woul
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by goodkarma 17y ago
Wow, I didn't even know about Skype Extras until today! I could have been using Skype Extras to record calls, send faxes, and do all kinds of other great stuff with Skype. I think Skype (and, by extension, eBay) really dropped the ball on t

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